Re: Battle of the remakes Part 8

Nah, it's not, it's just NOT.Carpenter based it on the book 'Who Goes There' and it barely copies 'The Thing From Another World' in any way. J.C just happened to make his adaptation of the book after some other guy. It simply isn't a remake, or a reimagining, or a reboot or a re-anything. It's a cinematic adaptation of a book.Just because Carpenter was the second guy to adapt 'Who Goes There' into a film doesn't mean it's a remake. Otherwise, every version of Pride & Prejudice or Dracula or Frankenstein or Romeo & Juliet instantly becomes a remake of the first movie to bear the name.

Re: Battle of the remakes Part 8

Gotta side with Fulcento on this one. JC's The Thing isn't a remake. It's one of two very different adaptations of the same source story, with JC's being the more faithful (though still far from exact) version.

That said, normally even I will refer to it as a remake, for no other reason than that most folks have never heard of the source story, called Who Goes There?. But most have heard of an old black and white horror flick called The Thing, which JC's The Thing has a couple things in common with.

Re: Battle of the remakes Part 8

i would definitely say " The Thing" is a remake and go with that one and it certainly is more of a remake than "the Hand " is of " The Beast with Five Fingers". what a load of bollocks Wikipedia! no wonder i never use you.